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26/01/2015 I'm a Celebrity.... 10 general knowledge questions alongside a part-picture of a celebrity.  The celebrity's first name and surname is formed from an anagram of the first letters of the 10 answers.

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1.

In April 2014 Dame Patricia Hodgson took over from Colette Bowe as Chair of which national authority responsible – amongst other things – for broadcasting?

Ofcom

2.

In which European city would you find the John Frost bridge?

Arnhem

(John Frost led the paratroopers that tried to secure the bridge for the advancing Allies in 1944)

3.

In the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow the UK representative came 5th with the Andrew Lloyd Webber song It’s My Time.  The singer was a former member of the group The Sugababes.  What was her name?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

Jade Ewen

4.

In which celebrated 1960 film does a character called Marion Crane stop for the night in Bakersfield, California?

Psycho

5.

Which German State with its capital at Erfurt includes the cities of Jena and Weimar?

Thuringia

6.

What was the name of the character in the 1966 film of Robert Bolt’s A Man For All Seasons played by John Hurt who betrayed Thomas More and then went on to be Lord Chancellor during Edward VI’s reign?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

Richard Rich

7.

Which character from the French Revolution was referred to by essayist Thomas Carlyle as “the sea-green Incorruptible”?  (surname provides the anagram letter)

 

Maximilien de Robespierre

8.

Which legendary racehorse owned by the Duchess of Westminster was named after a mountain in Sutherland, Scotland that borders the Westminster estate?

Arkle

9.

What spice is traditionally used to add flavour to rye bread?

Caraway seeds

10.

In French metropolitan areas what is the name usually given to the areas between the ‘Ville Centre’ and the ‘Couronne Pėriurbaine’?

Banlieues

 

 

 

and the celebrity is the photographer...

Robert Capa